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First In

Hollywood could not have written it better -- Gary Schroen was literally just days away from retirement at the CIA, on September 11th, 2001. Two days later his bosses asked him to postpone his retirement, so he could lead the first U.S. mission into Afghanistan, throw out the Taliban and eliminate Osama bin Laden.